Freely Available and Open Content : Lifelong Learning

Tips and sources for finding and accessing high quality information resources to use in research and teaching whether or not you're associated with the UW-Madison.

Free Online Learning

Coursera
Coursera provides universal access to some of the world’s best education, partnering with universities and organizations to offer courses online.
edX
Founded by Harvard University and MIT in 2012, edX is an online learning destination, offering high-quality courses from some of the world’s best universities and institutions to learners everywhere.
Udacity
Udacity offers free online courses and nanodegree programs focused on technology.
Khan Academy
A non-profit educational organization with a mission is to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.
Open Learning
Online learning with a focus on building learning communities.

Freely Available Film, Literature, Etc.

Open Culture
Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community.
LibriVox
Free public domain audiobooks.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg offers over 53,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.
Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.